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Every day, we hear another story about a company whose sensitive data has been breached. Press releases, tweets, customer support email, and followup articles all provide insight into the kind of information that
It's been known for some time that there are security issues associated with the increasing use of RFID tags in credit cards, but this past weekend afforded a fresh demonstration of just how easy it is for hackers to take advantage of them.
Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words
Encryption keys on smartphones can be stolen via a technique using radio waves, says one of the world's foremost crypto experts, Paul Kocher, whose firm Cryptography Research will demonstrate the hacking stunt with several types of smartphones at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco next month.
Hacktivists have added a new tactic to their arsenal: redirecting all of the traffic from a target company's website.
An O2 user, Lewis Peckover, found that the mobile phone company has been adding the phone number of any subscriber using its mobile network to the HTTP headers of web requests. The header, x-up-calling-line-id, appears to be inserted by the transparent proxies that O2 uses so it can downgrade images and insert JavaScript into the returned HTML.
Hackers under the AntiSec banner appeared to have hacked late Monday the website of OnGuardOnline.gov, the U.S. federal government's online security website, in protest against controversial legislation.
A group of hackers temporarily wiped clean CBS.com, in what seemed to be further retaliation for the government shutdown last week of file-sharing site Megaupload.com.
DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting services provider and domain name registrar, has confirmed that it may have been the victim of an attack on its servers. In a post on its DreamHost Status blog, the company says that it "detected some unauthorized activity" in one of its databases and is now requiring customers to change their FTP/shell passwords as a precautionary measure.
Symantec today backed away from earlier statements regarding the theft of source code of some of its flagship security products, now admitting that its own network was compromised.
Security researchers have spotted spam emails that point at URLs featuring embedded Quick Response codes (QR codes).
Hackers have posted the source code for two Symantec security products, claiming they obtained the information from systems belonging to Indian military intelligence. The products affected are four and five years old, Symantec said. "If the source code from product released in the past three or four years was compromised, I'd be pretty concerned," said security consultant Randy Abrams.
Nine months after first being put into testing, the new version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced.
A defacer affiliated with Anonymous vandalised Sony's online front door this week over the corporate behemoth's support of SOPA, a hated anti-piracy law proposed in the US.
A computer hacking group has revealed email addresses and other personal data from former Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, and hundreds of U.S. intelligence, law enforcement and military officials in a high-profile case of cyber-theft.
Activists from hacker movement Anonymous have attacked the servers of Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor) and claim they have gained access to more than 200 gigabytes of mail data. Stratfor founder George Friedman has since confirmed that a confidential list of customers has been published on other web sites.
Hacktivist group Anonymous stole more than 50,000 credit card numbers, along with a variety of other data, in its hack of private security think tank Stratfor earlier this week, according to analysis of the data.
The loose-knit hacking movement "Anonymous" claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards.
Taking seriously an apparent threat from a notorious collective of computer hackers, the Iowa Republican Party is boosting the security of the electronic systems it will use in two weeks to count the first votes of the 2012 presidential campaign.
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